http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Sun, 26 May 2013 00:13:19 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-15375 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:40:59 +0000 lxwx 15375@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I discovered my problem. Thematic is blameless. :) </p> <p>I was messing with $query to limit the categories appearing on the home page, like this:</p> <blockquote><p><code><br /> function child_filter_exclude_category ( $query ) {<br /> if ( $query-&gt;is_feed || $query-&gt;is_home ) {<br /> $query-&gt;set( 'cat', '3' ); // include only category 3 = News<br /> }<br /> return $query;<br /> }<br /> add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'child_filter_exclude_category');<br /> </code></p></blockquote> <p>That was the problem, and I found a better way... on this forum, of course.</p> <p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/filtering-one-category-from-index-loop#post-14812" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/filtering-one-category-from-index-loop#post-14812</a></p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>--Alex </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-15231 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:15:18 +0000 lxwx 15231@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>OK, I'm experiencing some frustration getting this to work in a child theme built against Thematic 0.9.7.4 (latest stable dev release).</p> <p>Started with a "clean slate" child theme on a scratch site and sure enough, as Gene has mentioned elsewhere, only needed this in my functions.php to get Custom Menu working as hoped!<br /> <code><br /> function child_access_menu() {<br /> $menu_sys = 'wp_nav_menu';<br /> return $menu_sys;<br /> }<br /> add_filter('thematic_menu_type', 'child_access_menu');<br /> </code></p> <p>But then I tried the same thing in my <em>original</em> child theme, and no joy. The main menu area remains empty. When I activate stock Thematic 0.9.7.4 on this install, the Custom Menu widget renders correctly in the sidebar. But when I switch back to my child theme, this is no longer true -- the widget is empty. </p> <p>I've removed all other menu-related add_filter() and add_action() statements. I've tried re-saving the Menu, and both reset buttons in Thematic Options. Both themes say they "support 1 menu" in Appearance &gt; Menus. It still seems like something in the <strong>data</strong> is messing this up. </p> <p>Is there some trick I'm missing? Mustn't the Custom Menu widget be working before there is any hope of getting the same menu to appear in div#access?</p> <p>Thanks to anyone with advice...</p> <p>--Alex </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/non-navigable-menu-items#post-15179 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:37:36 +0000 Davidw 15179@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>This relates to a question asked in a Google groups: "Is it possible to have a horizontal page menu display as a parent page, with drop down child pages when the parent page is not hyperlinked?" See:<br /> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/wordpress-austin/browse_thread/thread/f37341ba0e383412" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/wordpress-austin/browse_thread/thread/f37341ba0e383412</a></p> <p>I want to have a parent page on my horizontal navigation that does not go anywhere - it just exposes the children pages which do have content. In other words, its published, but it doesn't do anything when you click on it. Possible?</p> <p>The person answering the question posted in Google groups suggests a way to do this using the Menus settings in wp-admin, but these don't work in Thematic. There seems to be a way to turn them on, but in doing so, you have to turn off Thematic's menu functions, which I don't want to do. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/add_theme_supportmenus#post-15162 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:29:34 +0000 squidz 15162@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Will do!! Thanks. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/add_theme_supportmenus#post-14925 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:36:20 +0000 helgatheviking 14925@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>squidz- my code definitely pre-dated this new announcement to not use add_theme_support. your post made me curious and both your snippets of code work for me on the latest, stable thematic (709) WITHOUT add_theme_support('menus'). give it a shot. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/add_theme_supportmenus#post-14913 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:05:03 +0000 squidz 14913@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Chris - I'm new to Thematic and coming from designer-world. In experimenting with building a child theme for my own site, I'm interested in setting the main nav in a vertical fashion.</p> <p>I found a post that shows an easy snippet to try this. However, I've also found various links by Gene to your post here about not using add_theme_support('menus'), but calling register_nav_menu(s) instead. Another example by Helgatheviking used both. </p> <p>So, being somewhat clueless here, I'm curious what the correct way to use this code from <a href="(http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/going-vertical-with-wp3-menus-enabled#post-13970)">Tarpontech</a> should be:</p> <p>function go_vertical( $args ) {<br /> $args[ 'menu_class' ] = 'sf-menu sf-vertical';<br /> return $args;<br /> }<br /> add_filter( 'thematic_nav_menu_args', 'go_vertical' );</p> <p>Using this in conjunction with Gene's:</p> <p>add_theme_support( 'menus' ); **** can register_nav_menu(s) directly replace this? ***</p> <p>function child_access_menu() {<br /> $menu_sys = 'wp_nav_menu';<br /> return $menu_sys;<br /> }<br /> add_filter('thematic_menu_type', 'child_access_menu'); </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-14868 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:08:46 +0000 em hr 14868@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Heads up using add_theme_support in this way is not advised</p> <p>ref: <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/add_theme_supportmenus" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/add_theme_supportmenus</a></p> <p>-Gene </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-14851 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:48:02 +0000 theBlogButler 14851@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Well this is cool but the commune theme isn't using the 3.0 menu functionality. I'm not good enough with PHP to punch the proper code into the 3.0 functionality. :( </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-14850 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:26:31 +0000 theBlogButler 14850@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I'll say it - Helga rocks! Thank you! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-14848 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:37:22 +0000 helgatheviking 14848@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>download and take a look at the code for the Commune Child theme. </p> <p><a href="http://www.cozmoslabs.com/2009/04/07/green-anyone-try-commune-thematic-child-theme/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cozmoslabs.com/2009/04/07/green-anyone-try-commune-thematic-child-theme/</a></p> <p>it has a category menu built in </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-14847 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:28:54 +0000 theBlogButler 14847@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>How would I integrate a categories menu drop-down that is dynamic and not dependent upon pages? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/add_theme_supportmenus#post-14844 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:02:52 +0000 Chris 14844@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>do not use add_theme_support('menus') in your functions.php. I already removed it from the current SVN copy.</p> <p>Here's the answer from Andrew Nacin regarding the question if a theme needs this call in the functions.php:</p> <blockquote><p> This is incorrect. add_theme_support('menus') is an internal process only. *It should never be directly called.* Instead, the theme should be calling register_nav_menu(s) which will trigger add_theme_support('menus') internally.</p> <p>Likewise, add_theme_support('widgets') is internal only. The theme should only be calling register_sidebar(s). </p></blockquote> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-13265 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:58:21 +0000 em hr 13265@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>This is all I am using to integrate the new nav menu's for a singular menu on WP3 + Thematic 0.9.7</p> <pre><code>add_theme_support( &#39;menus&#39; ); function child_access_menu() { $menu_sys = &#39;wp_nav_menu&#39;; return $menu_sys; } add_filter(&#39;thematic_menu_type&#39;, &#39;child_access_menu&#39;);</code></pre> <p>Thats pretty simple right. How simple the code is depends on how you are using the menu system with Thematic. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-13264 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:42:16 +0000 theorib 13264@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks em hr, I'll check into that although it worked for me that way (weird)...</p> <p>I really didn't check if it breaks stuff in other version of WP @helgatheviking, but I'd say it does.</p> <p>Take a look at the last SVN version of Thematic, as far as I know Chris made it all easier for us to use those menus but I still didn't test it. take a look at the last post here:</p> <p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/wordpress-30-and-the-upcoming-thematic-release" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/wordpress-30-and-the-upcoming-thematic-release</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-13263 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:46:44 +0000 em hr 13263@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Heads up in the final WP 3.0 things changed:</p> <pre><code>add_theme_support( &#39;nav-menus&#39; );</code></pre> <p>needs to be:</p> <pre><code>add_theme_support( &#39;menus&#39; );</code></pre> <p>to work properly. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-13244 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:18:58 +0000 helgatheviking 13244@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Nice work. I'm reading Justin's post to get my head wrapped around this. </p> <p>also does this break everything in &lt;wp3.0 ? i have no menus at the moment and it doesn't seem to fall back to wp_list_pages. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/a-better-way-to-use-the-new-menu-in-wordpress-30-final-version#post-13219 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:45:31 +0000 theorib 13219@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi all, </p> <p>I'm posting this for those of you who might be looking on how to implement the new navigation menus that come with Wordpress 3.0</p> <p>The technique Chris posted on Thematic4you didn't seem to be working with the final WP 3.0 version so I went ahead looking for solutions:<br /> <a href="http://programming.thematic4you.com/2010/03/how-to-test-wp_nav_menu-with-thematic/" rel="nofollow">http://programming.thematic4you.com/2010/03/how-to-test-wp_nav_menu-with-thematic/</a></p> <p>With the help of the WP Codex and a great post by Justin Tadlock (links bellow) I got the new menu to work with Thematic:<br /> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_nav_menu" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_nav_menu</a><br /> <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus" rel="nofollow">http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus</a></p> <p>I'm not very good with PHP so if any of you have any suggestions to improve the code they are welcome!</p> <pre><code>// We declare that our theme supports wp_nav_menu() add_theme_support( &#39;nav-menus&#39; ); // We Register the a new menu for the theme called &quot;Primary Menu&quot; function register_primary_menu() { register_nav_menu( &#39;primary-menu&#39;, __( &#39;Primary Menu&#39; ) ); } add_action( &#39;init&#39;, &#39;register_primary_menu&#39; ); // We remove the standard Thematic menu function remove_menu() { remove_action(&#39;thematic_header&#39;,&#39;thematic_access&#39;,9); } add_action(&#39;init&#39;, &#39;remove_menu&#39;); // We create the new wp_nav_menu called &quot;Primary Menu&quot; in our theme function new_access() { ?&gt; &lt;div id=&quot;access&quot;&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;skip-link&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#content&quot; title=&quot;&lt;?php _e(&#39;Skip navigation to the content&#39;, &#39;thematic&#39;); ?&gt;&quot;&gt;&lt;?php _e(&#39;Skip to content&#39;, &#39;thematic&#39;); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- .skip-link --&gt; &lt;?php /* Our navigation menu. If one isn&#39;t filled out, wp_nav_menu falls back to wp_page_menu. The menu assiged to the primary position is the one used. If none is assigned, the menu with the lowest ID is used. */ ?&gt; &lt;?php wp_nav_menu( array( &#39;theme_location&#39; =&gt; &#39;primary-menu&#39;, // we define this as being the previously registered &quot;Primary Menu&quot; &#39;menu_class&#39; =&gt; &#39;sf-menu&#39;, // we assign the sf-menu class to the menu ul so that superfish workds &#39;container_class&#39; =&gt; &#39;menu&#39; // we assign the menu class to the menu container div so to keep it compatible with the Thematic menu styling )); ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- #access --&gt; &lt;?php } add_action(&#39;thematic_header&#39;,&#39;new_access&#39;,9);</code></pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/should-i-move-to-thematic-from-thesis#post-11100 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:15:35 +0000 andrea_r 11100@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>As far as I know, the Thesis guys are not interested in BuddyPress and have no plans on a BP version. I played with thesis once and found it counter-intuitive to what I knew from regular WP themes.</p> <p>The Buddymatic guy is Ron, and I'm his partner, ;) It's just Thematic with the BP parts - an excellent base to start from.</p> <p>The theme works with 3.0, and everyone is working hard on getting BuddyPress itself working properly in 3.0. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/should-i-move-to-thematic-from-thesis#post-10744 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:36:41 +0000 em hr 10744@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi slobizman,</p> <p>I've never used Thesis so I can't give you a good comparison. I'm a Thematic fan, without a doubt. Thematic is free and our collective support is what makes it priceless. </p> <p>I can tell you this:</p> <p>1. WP 3.0 multi user is currently being tested with Thematic and will undoubtedly be supported in a coming release.<br /> 2. Enabling Thematic + WP 3.0 menu management will be as easy as writing a simple function for your child theme.<br /> 3. <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddymatic">Buddymatic</a> is a port of Thematic for BuddyPress and is currently being updated by a core committer to the WordPress + MU merge and is keeping pace with the latest release versions of Thematic.</p> <p>All in all, my money is on Thematic and GPL frameworks over premium themes with proprietary support any day. Now is as good a time as any to start with Thematic.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Gene </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/should-i-move-to-thematic-from-thesis#post-10732 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:14:29 +0000 kgoodman 10732@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi -<br /> I've no experience with Thesis but I love Thematic.</p> <p>The user community is great. I've pretty much found every answer I've needed already posted on this forum (might not be exactly the snippet of code I need, but what I need to get in the right direction.) </p> <p>Here's a great resource for you to start checking out some of the builtin hooks and filters you can use in customizing your theme. <a href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic/guide/">Thematic Customization Guid</a>.</p> <p>There are some new FREE child themes (like Feature Site and Acamas). I would check them out as they might get you started off on your project really fast. I've customized Feature Site with my own child theme very easily. <a href="http://themeshaper.com/category/thematic-child-themes/">themeshaper.com</a>. I actually paid for the theme before it was free, needless to say, still love it. ;-)</p> <p>I can't comment on how future integration will work with WP 3.0/Buddypress, hopefully someone else will answer that. </p> <p>As a newbie to PHP and wordpress, I found learning Wordpress and Thematic to be pretty straightforward. </p> <p>Best of luck to you and your son.<br /> k.n. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/should-i-move-to-thematic-from-thesis#post-10730 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:08:15 +0000 slobizman 10730@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hello everyone. I am a Thesis user with some questions to see if I should move over to Thematic.</p> <p>I have an existing site on Thesis, and I'm concerned about how it's going to let me integrate Buddypress, but that's not my main question.</p> <p>My big question is if I should instead of Thesis switch to Thematic for the site I am about to start this week. My main concern is that I have a framework/theme that keeps up with the myriad of new features in WP 3.0 as soon as possible. In addition to that, I want to know that I can add Buddypress at some point in the reasonably near future and not be held back by Thesis. Lots of people at Thesis are asking about BP integration, but no official answers are forthcoming. And I wonder if Thesis will right away allow the use of the new WP 3.0 menus, for example, since they have their own set up.</p> <p>So, I've been looking around at all the various frameworks. I had thought that Thesis was the greatest thing for WP designers (and I do like it), but since looking around I'm seeing that this may not be the case. I am trying to find that helps with what I said above, and is not so completely hard to learn after using Thesis. I'm an intermediate level technical person, including in CSS and Thesis hooks. I'm also going to work on this new project this week with my son, who is new at most of WP stuff, but I want him to get trained on something we'll stick with.</p> <p>So, would someone be so kind as to give me some advice regarding all this? I hear this is a very good community, btw. </p>